Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1892 — THE FAIR SEX. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE FAIR SEX.

Francis "Willard : claims that the amount of force exerted at a given moment to compress the waists of women bv artificial methods, would if aggregated, turn all the mills between Minneapolis and the Merrimas, while the condensed force of their tight shoes, if Ft could bo appiied- wauld run many trains^ A CALLING COSTUME, The illustration shows a charming jailing costume in pink silk or cr<T-

pon with a guipure plastron, having the form of a yoke, front and back. The crossed ribbons meet at a point at the back. There is a ribbon bracejet at the elbow and deep lace cuffs. The plastron should be gathered on a straight collar. The Empress of Austria takes eaeh day long walking excusions, iu which she tires out her ladies in waiting, convening all the way in modern Greek with a Greek professor. It is in study and exercise that the Empress drives away the attacks of melancholia which have been of such frequent recurrence since the death of her son. AN AFTERNOON TOILET. The illustration depicts a tasteful afteru ion toilet. The feature of the costume is the figaro corsage over a silk blouse, belted in with a broad

corselet which, like the collar, is either embroidered or covered with passementerie. Example » better than pretept, and here is a bright one. An elderly lady m England, one of the old school of gentlemen, has for several years knitted each year seventy shawls and a score or more of mufflers for the poor, besides cutting out colored scraps and pasting them iu books for children in the hospital. , All this never seems to interfere with her writing exquisite little let- | ters in a beautiful hand, keeping up i with the social and political events of the day by means of papers and » books, arranging the flowers allover Irer large bousepand giving the usual oversight and orders incident to housekeeping. The old lady is 90. TAILOR-MADE JACKETS. This very stylish model is of Havana brown broadcloath, with a deep fichu raffle opening over a little in-

serted collar and a bib of orange surah. The hat is of Havana brown, with shaded tips of the two tones. If Professor Lombroso keeps on with his indictments against women ne will soon have exhausted the category and his apparently congenial iccupation will be gone. His latest Jiargc against the sex comes in the orm of an alteration of the proverb Miat “ail men are liars,” to muke it appear that the prevarication of the world should be laid at woman’s toor. A woman's lie is usually a zery colorless affair, in which no deeit is intended and by which no one s deceived. But what about the rnble hue ot the falsehoods which ■uke the form of business swindles, lishonesty in trade, and what of the rigantic scope of the campaign lies ust now illustrating forcibly the ruth of Prof. Lombroso's chivalrous heories. ■ One of tbe purposes of the woman’s ■hare in the Columbian Fair, and lerliuDS not the least important, is that the exhibits shall demonstrate

that women have bad through tlm ages greater originality and inventiveness than they have been accred. ited with. Among the primitive pupila women were the originators, it is Claimed, of industrial arts, and it wap only after tbexr became lucrative that men usurped them. Women de-’ vised tho dressing and curing of game, and the fashioning of the skins of animals into garments. Women invented the needle, the shuttle, the weaving of textiles. She was the first potter, and she originated basket making. There will be shown, as, illustration of the influence of women ' during mediaeval times,'a copy of the old Bayeux tapestry mad& by Matilda of Flanders and her maidens, which is the best and most authentic history of the conquest of England by her husband William the Conqueror; reproductions of the statues of Salina yon Jsteinbach. danghter and assistant of the architect of cathedral. To her is aseribed the change from the stiff mediaeval angles to the graceful flowing lines that followed; and of the remarkable book prepared in the twelfth century by the Abbess of Herrad, which contained a compendium of all tSiTmow ledge of the day. illustrated by ilium nations, and considered by many to be the origin of the modern encyclopedia. There will be records, too, of the women who were professors in the early Italian universities, and many other things of interest illustrative of woman’s early prowess, and proving that the present uprising in the ranks is only the natural force of the stream seeking its level, and not at all a new departure.

There is a little paragraph going the rounds and appearing with more or, less regularity in the papers to the effect that Madjeska says that one reason why she preserves her beauty is that she husbands her emotions, for where a woman is" beginning to get old she cannot afford to be glad or sad as in her youth. To some one who questioned * her concerning it, the still beautiful actress answered: “Modjeskaeconomical of her emotions —why, I am not even economical with my money. I am the veriest spendthrift that ever lived of smiles and tears and dollars., It is that I have still retained the power ’to feet everything, whether glad or sad, most intensely, to laugh and cry within the same moment, almost, that keeps me young. Youth is not careful for anything, but wastes itself on every emotion, sure of the fulness of its fount of feeling.”

A woman sanitary engineer has been chosen to represent the English women at the Congress of Hygiene. She is a woman of versatile genius, a professor of certificates for art, music, hygiene, divinity, physiology, and sanitary science. She visits pi'ofedeionalfy slaughter houses, worltsfWps, and dairies, and under* stands all about thelayingof drains, water dialns, connections7«to. *"”'ssie Erooictyn Fiospital for Women and Children has a board of sixty -women managers, a hospital staff of twenty-two physicians, and a training school for women nurses. It is the only hospital in Brooklyn where women are permitted to practice.